Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Over 10,000 unique and unpublished mine-related documents
are being made available for free download through the Idaho Geological
Survey’s mines interactive web map application. Reed Lewis, an IGS geologist pictured here,
leads the effort to preserve these documents and make them widely available to
the public through the mines app. The effort to process and scan the IGS
collection is funded in part by Idaho Department of Lands and the U.S.
Geological Survey’s National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation
Program. About half of the existing collection is now available online with new
scans added frequently.

Tuesday, November 07, 2017

At the Geologic Mapping Forum in Minneapolis from March 27th
to 29th, 2018, ~100 geological map authors, program managers and allied
professionals from geological surveys and allied agencies will meet to discuss
the status and future of geologic mapping in the USA. Registration, hotel
reservations, and abstract submission are now open. The response continues to
be very positive; we can look forward to a tremendous meeting!

Ken Hendricks and Erin Campbell have
been appointed to the four-member Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation
Commission by Gov. Matt Mead. Hendricks, a petroleum engineer, recently
retired from Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and would replace Tom Fitzsimmons, who has resigned. Campbell, who becomes state geologist on Nov. 21, would join the commission in mid-December, replacing Tom Drean, who is retiring as state geologist.